May 18, 2009

44 comments:

Our Professor may start up a Dress for Success blog for men who need to meet women next. The Blue pastel is a bad color on fair skinned men. He probably ought to wear some black or red darker color. But dancing is always a plus for men even if the shirt needs to go. Take her to dinner and dancing and she will call you back herself.

Middle aged white men really shouldn't try the bump and grind.No middle-aged man regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, etc. should bump and grind. And that goes for the vast majority of middle-aged women too. (Except in the privacy of my bedroom. Then those cougars can bump and grind all they want.)

- hippo out of the river, my first thought but hey, he is probably a wonderful father and trusted colleague so that mellows me to assuming he has ticks in his crotch and is seeking relief by rubbing on the person in front of him

@ricpic Your guess is right. I have another picture, taken a second later, where the woman is facing the man and obviously enjoying herself. The band was just fine and the couples looked like they were having a lot fun dancing.

You know, life doesn't have to be that difficult. Go ahead and dance and don't worry about looking stupid. Your wife/girlfriend will probably love it.

I am certain this is what the after-party in hell looks like. It follows a triple feature: Milk, Mystic River, and The Assassination of Richard Nixon.

"Go ahead and dance and don't worry about looking stupid."Your wife/girlfriend will also think you look stupid; she may not say anything unless you've already pissed her off, but she thinks you look stupid, no doubt about it.

Aging is all about indignity and looking ridiculous; get used to it. It won't be over until people start thinking you look cute.

"@ricpic Your guess is right. I have another picture, taken a second later, where the woman is facing the man and obviously enjoying herself. The band was just fine and the couples looked like they were having a lot fun dancing.

You know, life doesn't have to be that difficult. Go ahead and dance and don't worry about looking stupid. Your wife/girlfriend will probably love it."

People out having fun dancing, listening to a live band. Good times all around and all most people can do is snark. The number of snooty, conceited people here is disturbing. You expect it from the perpetually juvenile leftists, but conservatives are supposed to have a live and let live attitude and the graciousness to respect normal folks simply enjoying themselves.

I wonder what the comments thread would have looked like if Althouse had posted the other picture she describes, instead of this one. Perhaps with the caption "Go ahead and dance. Your wife/girlfriend will probably love it."

Maybe less mockery of the middle-aged, middle-class white folks? But probably only slightly less. For a lot of us, it is self-deprecation.

That is so not true Althouse. My wife does not allow me to dance in public. My kids "feel embarrassed for mankind" when I dance. Well, that kind of dance anyway. She will allow me to do a country waltz but that's it.

Dancing can be learned together with lessons and practice like any physical skill. You suddenly do much better after six months. The Shag version of swing dancing is fun, and today the latin beat dances are popular like the Hustle and old stand-bys like Cha Cha and Tango. In Atlanta now there a lot of good Russian dance instructors/competitors. Why couldn't we enjoy performances of Dancing with the Stars in place of Singing with the Idols next season? You must remember Patrick Swazye as a dance instructer in Dirty Dancing? He may have died recently. Dance while you still have time.